Word: addressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev will be in Cuba through Wednesday for meetings with Castro. In London, he will hold talks Thursday with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, address financial and business leaders Friday and have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II before departing for Moscow...
...that are up close, personal and capable of capturing the public imagination -- make regulatory decisions politically easy. But while all the fuss was being made over the slight possibility that some fresh fruit had been poisoned, hundreds of other perils -- less interesting, less photogenic, more complex and difficult to address -- were overlooked. Regulation that swoops down on the scare of the week keeps attention diverted from the problems individuals can do less about, like acid rain or the country's overflowing trash dumps...
...formed 13 years ago to address the cultural, educational, political and social needs of Asian Americans on campus: culturally, to celebrate the richness of our heritage; educationally, to discover our identities; politically, to obtain the rights to which we are entitled as human beings and as minorities are being denied; socially, to develop ties with those with whom we share commonalities. Our focus is the Asian American community, and we have and always will encourage all Harvard-Radcliffe students to explore its many facets...
...first issue I would like to address concerns the dining halls. Why do people take such offense to a group of minorities sitting at a table together? Does anyone ever question or even notice a table full of whites? What about the tables where there is a mixed group of people? Mr. Hsia did not even acknowledge the existence of such tables. I, like many of my friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Futhermore, I believe that it is a credit...
...addition, Putnam's work in the Government Department demonstrates his ability to address and correct for the lack of minority faculty. Bok and others praise Putnam's energetic efforts to recruit minority faculty, and Kennedy School Student Government leaders reacted favorably to Putnam's recent speech in which he said diversity would be a top priority...